Answer the given question below. Provide the full solution. See attached photo for the given values to be computed. A chicken salad was picked from a local subway and brought to the laboratory. 200 grams were addedto 200 ml of sterile buffered peptone water and homogenized for 2 min. The solution was chilled toprevent overheating. The final dilutions and the collected data are presented below. The plate mediumis TSA agar. Answer parts (a), (b), and (c). (a) There are ______________ CFU per ml of homogenate.                                                  (b) There are_______________ CFU per gram of the chicken salad.                                         (c) What does CFU stand for?

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Answer the given question below. Provide the full solution. See attached photo for the given values to be computed.

A chicken salad was picked from a local subway and brought to the laboratory. 200 grams were addedto 200 ml of sterile buffered peptone water and homogenized for 2 min. The solution was chilled toprevent overheating. The final dilutions and the collected data are presented below. The plate mediumis TSA agar. Answer parts (a), (b), and (c).

(a) There are ______________ CFU per ml of homogenate.                                                  (b) There are_______________ CFU per gram of the chicken salad.                                         (c) What does CFU stand for? ______________________

Plate
A
B
C
D
Colonies observed
Too numerous to count
564
275
19
Final dilution
10-¹
10-²
10-³
10-4
Transcribed Image Text:Plate A B C D Colonies observed Too numerous to count 564 275 19 Final dilution 10-¹ 10-² 10-³ 10-4
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